ROMAN HOUSE BOATS
to be salved prom lake NEMT. Two splendid ships belonging to the Emperor Tiberius have been at (lie bottom of Lake Nemi for nineteen centuries. Signor Mussolini is president of n committee which is raising £50,000 in order partially to drain the lake and salve (lie ships, ' Lake Nemi in the Alban Hills, is an extinct crater about 34 miles in diameter, and some 110 feet dee]). The lake is drained by a tunnel abonf; two miles long of Roman consfruefion. On (ho west side of the lake, remains of two ships, really house boats or floating palaces, moored to (ho shore, have been found dating hack to (he times of the Emperors Caligula and Tiberius. One boat is 210 feel long and 66ft. wide, and the other is 233 feet by 80 feet. The first was decorated with marbles and mosaics and with some very fine bronze hen inheads, with heads of wolves and lions having rings for hawsers in (heir mouths. Various attempts have been made to raise the first ship from (lie 15th Century on, and much harm has been done. The lake was a beauty spot in the days of ancient Rome,
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2662, 22 November 1923, Page 3
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199ROMAN HOUSE BOATS Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2662, 22 November 1923, Page 3
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